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Thermonuclear burn-up in deuterated methane
The thermonuclear burn-up of highly compressed deuterated methane CD is
considered in the spherical geometry. The minimal required values of the
burn-up parameter are determined for various
temperatures and densities . It is shown that thermonuclear burn-up
in becomes possible in practice if its initial density exceeds
. Burn-up in CDT methane
requires significantly ( 100 times) lower compressions. The developed
approach can be used in order to compute the critical burn-up parameters in an
arbitrary deuterium containing fuel
Baikal-GVD: status and prospects
Baikal-GVD is a next generation, kilometer-scale neutrino telescope under
construction in Lake Baikal. It is designed to detect astrophysical neutrino
fluxes at energies from a few TeV up to 100 PeV. GVD is formed by multi-megaton
subarrays (clusters). The array construction started in 2015 by deployment of a
reduced-size demonstration cluster named "Dubna". The first cluster in its
baseline configuration was deployed in 2016, the second in 2017 and the third
in 2018. The full scale GVD will be an array of ~10000 light sensors with an
instrumented volume of about 2 cubic km. The first phase (GVD-1) is planned to
be completed by 2020-2021. It will comprise 8 clusters with 2304 light sensors
in total. We describe the design of Baikal-GVD and present selected results
obtained in 2015-2017.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures. Conference proceedings for QUARKS201
Studies of the ambient light of deep Baikal waters with Baikal-GVD
The Baikal-GVD neutrino detector is a deep-underwater neutrino telescope
under construction and recently after the winter 2023 deployment it consists of
3456 optical modules attached on 96 vertical strings. This 3-dimensional array
of photo-sensors allows to observe ambient light in the vicinity of the
Baikal-GVD telescope that is associated mostly with water luminescence. Results
on time and space variations of the luminescent activity are reviewed based on
data collected in 2018-2022
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